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Dr Paul Yoo

  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Prior to his current post at Birkbeck (Univ. of London), Paul has held academic and research positions at esteemed institutions such as Cranfield (Defence Academy of the UK), Sydney (USyd) and South Korea (KAIST). He was trained originally as a data scientist with degrees from the University of Sydney, Australia, and has since published over one hundred papers in prestigious journals and conferences. He has also been the recipient of over US$ 2.5 million in project funding, and various national and international awards for his work in advanced data analytics, machine learning and secure systems research. These accolades include the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, Rozetta Award (formerly CMCRC), Emirates Foundation Research Award, and the ICT Fund Award. Most recently, he was awarded the Samsung award for his research on novel abstract-feature-based learning approach [news], Research England’s Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF), as well as the MPU-Macau Fund.

    Paul serves as an Associate Editor for several high-ranked journals, including ACM Computing Surveys (Q1), IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (Q1) and IEEE Access (Q1). He has previously served as an Editor for IEEE COMML (Q1) in the areas of big data and machine learning from 2014 to 2019. He is also affiliated with the University of Sydney and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as a Visiting Professor. Paul is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of HEA.

    As the Founder and Chair of BIDA's Threat Intelligence Lab, Paul leads a team that aims to bridge the gap between machine learning advancements and the progression of cyber security. The lab is focused on creating the next generation of intelligent cyber defence and security research environment, including applications of cyber physical systems. The lab currently houses 11 PhD students, and recent photos of their lab meetings can be found here.

    Paul’s research is centred around the theory and methodology of machine learning for large-scale real-world problems. He has successfully applied various machine learning and big data analytic approaches to diverse problem domains, such as psychology, security, biology, finance, and manufacturing.

    Paul has also supervised a number of PhD/MSc by Research students to completion, and he welcomes inquiries about research degree (PhD/MPhil) and internship opportunities.

    Qualifications

    • PhD in Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia, 2009
    • PgCert in Academic Practice, Cranfield University, 2019

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    Administrative responsibilities

    • Dy Director (Knowledge Exchange), Birkbeck Institute for Data Analytics (BIDA)
    • Head, Data Science and AI Group
    • Chair, Threat Intelligence Lab
    • Programme Director, Digital Tech Solutions (Software)

    Professional memberships

    • Senior Member, IEEE

    • Fellow, HEA

    Honours and awards

    • Samsung Global Research Outreach Award, Samsung, January 2017
    • IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award, IEEE, January 2013
    • Rozetta Award, Rozetta Institute, Australia, July 2006

    ORCID

    0000-0001-7665-8616
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Current doctoral researchers

    • ZAID ALMAHMOUD
    • JOHN OMOKORE
    • THIAGO SUZUKI
    • ALBERTO MATUOZZO
    • DILARA UYSAL
    • GASSO MWALUSEKE
    • GURMENDER SINGH ATWAL
    • LAWRENCE OLUSANYA
    • NEIL MACKINNON
    • OMAR ALHAWI

    Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

    • SEONGIL HAN

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Foundations of Data Science II (BUCI070H5)
    • Foundations of Data Science II (BUCI070H5)
    • Applied Machine Learning (BUCI077H7)
    • Applied Machine Learning (BUCI077H7)
  • Publications

    Publications

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